Part of the job of the treasurer’s office is to send out property tax bills to county residents for homes, cars, boats and other property. While nobody likes getting a tax bill, it’s important the bills are sent to the correct address.

Many property owners have called to complain that they didn’t get their tax bill and ended up paying their taxes late because the bill was sent to an old address.

The treasurer’s office staff will send the property tax bill to the address on record with the county assessor’s office.

Gov. Nikki Haley’s executive budget grabbed a few headlines for its items on education, transportation, and Medicaid waiver programs. One component of the budget was almost completely ignored, however, and it shouldn’t be. The governor’s proposed spending plan includes $8.5 million in total funds – $5.3 million from the federal government – for a Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Fusion Center.

French President Hollande and our own President Barack Obama are meeting this week and in a press conference claim to have reached four key points of action and agreement: 1 – spend more on curing global diseases; 2 – work to encourage other countries to fight climate change; 3 – start a dialogue about a transatlantic trade agreement, and 4 – roll back key parts of Iran’s nuclear program and uphold sanctions but not place any new sanctions.

Unless you’re now a 60-year-old native South Carolinian, you’re unlikely to have any personal memory of the events known as the Orangeburg Massacre. You would have been 14 when it happened on Feb. 8, 1968 – two years before the deaths of four white students at Kent State University in Ohio.
The new 2014 Black History calendar published by S.C. AT&T for February (national Black History Month), highlights the Orangeburg Massacre. It provides a solid overview of what transpired.

For students and families concerned about the high cost of college these days, there’s a unique opportunity available in South Carolina to avoid these costs – and the large student loan debt that often results from them.
This opportunity lies in our state’s extensive and growing apprenticeship programs.

One of the challenges I face as a politician is that a lot of people don’t like politicians. This honestly doesn’t bother me too much. I work with politicians every day, and I don’t like a lot of them either.

This is in response to two guest columns concerning the Affordable Care Act – Nick Pasquine’s, “Lawrances’ column was a we-want-more-free rant,” and Brooks Walker’s, “True facts about ACA frightening.”

I’m writing this letter in hopes of convincing my fellow Lancaster residents of the importance of this year’s election. Normally a mid-term election is not that big of deal, but this one is. I’ll explain why. Over the last five years our country has changed. And not for the better. Our president has said and I quote, “I will fundamentally change the United States.”